Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monroe," read the letter to Columnist Al Ricketts of the Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, "was just plain lousy, unfair, unjust, un-100% red-blooded American, and nuts to you." The reader's gorge had risen over an unchivalrous evaluation of the film actress in Ricketts' column "On the Town": "There are gals in Hollywood who have more sex appeal in their eyelashes than Marilyn can cram into a gownless evening strap. They can also deliver dialogue without sounding like their mouths are full of Purina...
Such observations, appearing daily, have established Ricketts as the leader of a Far East cult whose followers exist mainly to revile him. "Your tastes coincide with a slob," raged one such. "I stick pins in your column only in the hope that you will not sleep at night." An American film exhibitor in Tokyo, infuriated by Ricketts' reviews, made him a standing offer of free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband...
...course of earning a reputation as "that fat character with guts," Ricketts began his daily column, did so well that the paper offered him a steady job after his Army discharge. Today the Pacific Stars and Stripes is inclined to view its civilian entertainment editor much as the New York Yankees view Slugger Mickey Mantle-although the paper pays him only $7,600 a year plus a cost-of-living allowance...
Exemption of the MTA from local taxation "unwisely" removed pressure on that group to sell off its excess land. "Most of this property, if wisely sold, could revert to the tax column of the City," Curry wrote...
...great China (pronounced Chee-nah) model fashion's new couture-inspired designs that you can sew yourself," cried the six-column newspaper ad for Macy's 1961 Spring Fabric Fashion Show. "Whether or not," continued the pitch, "you're an aficionado who adores China's rhythmical stroll along fashion's illustrious runways, you must come see her . . ." What made the invitation ir resistible was the accompanying portrait of "the great China," a model of ex quisitely earthy elegance - who makes her own clothes. Born in Shanghai of a Portuguese father and a Siamese mother, China...